Focus on Learning and the Language Learner

Applied Linguistics to Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

Unit 7: Focus on Learning and the Language Learner

Bessie Dendrinos

School of Philosophy

Faculty of English Language and Literature

The “Good Language Learner” (1/3)

• Are there personal characteristics that make one learner more successful than another?
• In your experience, as an English learner, which characteristics seem to you most likely to be associated with success in L2 acquisition?
• Then share your opinion with your group members. Find three most important and three least important learner characteristics.